Benares

Benares

SK-A-4975

signature: ‘m bauer’

In this painting, Bauer portrays life in Benares, one of the world’s oldest cities located on the Ganges River, in an idyllic setting. Bauer’s six- month trip through India in 1897 afforded him inspiration for the rest of his life. There is no room for suffering and povertyin his works of art. Instead, he focuses on the beauty of the sunlit city with a bathing woman and child, and rowers pushing off a sloop.

Cat. tent. Eeretentoonstelling M.A.J. Bauer, Amsterdam (Stedelijk Museum) 1933

painter: Marius Bauer

1913

olieverf op doek

• depth 7.8 cm
• height 137 cm x width 117 cm

W. van Iterson Bequest

bequest 2002-07

Public domain

…; purchased from the dealer E.J. van Wisselingh by Dr Jacob Rotgans(1859-1948), Baarn, 1913;{Note RMA.} by descent to Frits and Jenny van Iterson, née Rotgans, The Hague, Wassenaar;{Note RMA.} from whom to Mrs Dr Wout van Iterson, Amsterdam;{Note RMA} by whom bequeathed to the museum, 2002

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

• Cat. tent. Eeretentoonstelling M.A.J. Bauer, Amsterdam (Stedelijk Museum) 1933
• R.W.P. de Vries jr., M.A.J. Bauer, Amsterdam 1944, (afb.) p. 69
• Cat. tent. Marius Alexander Jacques Bauer. Keuze tentoonstelling van schilderijen ontstaan in de jaren 1895-1915, Amsterdam (E.J. van Wisselingh & Co) 1937, cat.nr. 2
• Cat. tent. Catalogo della XIIe Esposizione internazionale d'arte della cita de Venezia, 1920. p. 107, cat.nr. 3.

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